Discovery Time

We have had a wonderful morning discovering how to show someone in Piwakawaka what we are confident at. Here are some of the newer children interacting with yellow and red home bases.

Butterfly Garden

The Red and Yellow Rooms loved getting out in the butterfly garden as part of our investigations topic this term. They worked hard as a team to pull out some very big weeds to make our garden ready for some new plants.

Te Waka o Matariki

We worked in groups to sequence some story cards.  We worked in groups to say which picture came first, next and last.  Then we had to make up a story to match the pictures.  We had to look very carefully at the pictures to see what order to put them in.

Bottle top art - simple machines

We are busy using all the lids that we collected to make some art works to decorate our school.  We've been learning about simple machines and have been using a screw driver to attach the lids to the wood.  It took a lot of effort and time so now we are using a drill.  It is a lot of fun and makes it much faster to put the screws through the plastic and into the wood.  

Can you guess what we are making with the lids?

Burnside Stars

At Assembly today we had 3 certificate recipients - Riley, Ahi and Eseta.  We are very proud of these students and what they have achieved this week.  Riley showed Integrity, Ahi showed Excellence and Eseta also showed Excellence.

We were also very proud of the three children who received Cool Kids Awards - Heather, Tyson and TK.  They were able to have a hot chocolate with marshmallows with Mr Bateman.  Thanks for bringing the teachers back a marshmallow too :-)

Discovery Time Stars

This week we celebrated Pagen and Tyson who were our Discovery Time Stars.

We were very impressed by the way you both showed the value of Respect by packing away and organising the equipment without needing to be asked.

Ka pai Pagen and Tyson!

Discovery Time

Look at all the different things we have to choose from at Discovery Time.  We are enjoying thinking of our own creative ideas to make.